<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p data-qa-component="item-headline" data-rc-highlight="headline">SINGAPORE (Aug 5): HSBC&nbsp;Holdings has launched a three-part US dollar senior bond sale on Wednesday to help fund a planned&nbsp;buyback of up to US$5 billion&nbsp;of its outstanding 2028 notes.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>A term sheet showed&nbsp;HSBC&nbsp;is offering fixed-to-floating rate notes due in 2032 and 2037, as well as floating-rate notes due in 2032.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The bank gave initial price guidance of about 115 basis points over US Treasuries for the first 2032 tranche and 135 basis points for the 2037 notes.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The deal is expected to settle on Aug 14.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>HSBC&nbsp;is the sole book-runner.</p></div>

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SINGAPORE (Aug 5): HSBC Holdings has launched a three-part US dollar senior bond sale on Wednesday to help fund a planned buyback of up to US$5 billion of its outstanding 2028 notes.

HSBC launches three-part dollar bond sale to fund US$5 bil debt buyback

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